A North Carolina Business Court judge has dismissed the Town of Carrboro’s lawsuit claiming Duke Energy cost it millions of dollars in climate change costs because the utility failed to transition away from fossil fuels.
The case originally was filed in Orange County Superior Court in December 2024 and was moved to the N.C. Business Court, where it was assigned to Special Superior Court Judge Mark A. Davis.
In his ruling issued late Thursday, Davis didn’t speak to whether the town had shown it suffered monetary damages as a result of Duke Energy’s policies and practices over the past six decades as it claimed. Instead, the judge said, Carrboro’s case “presents nonjusticiable questions” — matters he said are better handled by the N.C. Utilities Commission and the state Department of Environmental Quality than the courts…